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Heb. 2 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book VII

The Stoics say that the world, and all things which are in it, were made for the sake of men: the sacred writings[71]

Heb. 2:1 - NIV, NAB - in Origen de Principiis Book III

And the Apostle Paul warns us: "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip."[299]

Heb. 2:2 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

and is appointed to afford an interval of rest to the souls of the righteous, until the consummation of all things shall complete the resurrection of all men with the "full recompense of their reward."[1364]

Heb. 2:3 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith

Moreover, in the Epistle to the Hebrews he writes again thus: "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost? "[93]

Heb. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

and "made a little lower" by Him "than angels,"[323]

Heb. 2:5 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LXVI

and ought to collect and cherish all the sheep which Christ by His blood and passion sought for; nor ought we to suffer our suppliant and mourning brethren to be cruelly despised and trodden down by the haughty presumption of some, since it is written, "But the man that is proud and boastful shall bring nothing at all to perfection, who has enlarged his soul as hell."[10]

Heb. 2:6 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

beneath His feet."[331]

Heb. 2:9 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book I

It was from His sense of that goodness that He answered him who addressed the Only-begotten with the words "Good Master,"[178]

Heb. 2:10 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity

Of course the houses of none but married men fare well! The families of celibates, the estates of eunuchs, the fortunes of military men, or of such as travel without wives, have gone to rack and ruin! For are not we, too, soldiers? Soldiers, indeed, subject to all the stricter discipline, that we are subject to so great a General?[63]

Heb. 2:10 - NIV, NAB - in 2 Clement

the Father of truth, who sent forth to us the Saviour and Prince of incorruption,[155]

Heb. 2:11 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

since Thou "weft not ashamed of me as Thy brother."[161]

Heb. 2:11 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom

is drawn away with the rent portions of the flesh; still he stands immoveable, the stronger for his sufferings, revolving only this in his mind, that in that brutality of the executioners Christ Himself is suffering[4]

Heb. 2:11 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book I

Now, in respect of wisdom and power, we have both forms of the statement, the relative and the absolute; but in respect of sanctification and redemption, this is not the case. Consider, therefore, since[174]

Heb. 2:12 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Barnabas

of my brethren; and I will praise thee in the midst of the assembly of the saints."[80]

Heb. 2:14 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

Perish, then, the savage beasts whose food is blood! For it is unlawful for men, whose body is nothing but flesh elaborated of blood, to touch blood. For human blood has become a partaker of the Word:[42]

Heb. 2:14 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

p into the hands of men, He was not delivered up by men into the hands of men, but by powers to whom the Farther delivered up His Son for us all, and in the very act of His being delivered up, and coming under the power of those to whom He was delivered up, destroying him that has the power of death; for "through death He brought to nought him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil, and delivered all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."[70]

Heb. 2:14 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

giving heed to the fact that He was about to be delivered up into the hands of men, and that He would be killed, as matters gloomy and calling for sorrow, but not attending to the fact that He would rise on the third day, as He needed no longer time "to bring to nought through death him that had the power of death."[81]

Heb. 2:16 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

That Lord, I say, who in His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin's womb became ineffably incarnate; that Lord, who was partaker of nothing else save the lump of Adam, who was by the serpent tripped up. For the Lord laid not hold of the seed of angels[114]

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